If you find, that a process is affecting your system’s performance or if a process is not responding. Then you need to kill that process, and to do so, you must know how to kill a process in windows 7.

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Tutorials and more: Subscribe here: Windows 7 - How to kill a process. Dec 19, 2009 Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. Hello, I am in the process of making a batch file but it needs to be able to close all open applications. To kill a process in Windows 7 using Command prompt Every one knows to kill a process in Windows using Task Manager Wizard. Normally we are making use of ctrl+alt+del keys to show up the task manager wizard to kill the memory eating processor or 'Not responding' process.

There are two ways that fulfill this purpose:

1. Using the Task Manager: The Task Manager is a startup manager that lists the running processes and grants the permission to create a task and it also allows to kill a single process at a time.
2. Using the Command Prompt: Through the Command prompt, you can kill tasks more effectively and multiple processes at the same time. That’s why, it is a more preferred option that kill the processes simultaneously.

Steps to Kill a Process in Windows 7

Method 1 of 2:

Step 1: Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete keys simultaneously to open the Task Manager. Then you”ll get the option to “Start Task Manager”, click on it.

Step 2:Windows Task Manager will open up on your screen.

Step 3: Select the application or process you want to kill. Then click on “End Task” to stop it, so that you”ll be able to work properly on your system.

Method 2 of 2:

Step 1: Click on “start” button, then type “cmd” on the search bar. The “CMD.EXE” program appears, right click on it and choose “Run as administrator”.

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Step 2: On the command prompt, type the command “tasklist” to view all the tasks which are in the running state.

Step 3: If you type the command “taskkill /taskname/F” then the task will not end as you have not entered the type of file. You”ll get the error as invalid argument. To know about the type of the file, run the command “taskkill / ?”.

Step 4: Parameter list will appear on your screen, read it properly.

For an example, if you want to stop the chrome, you need to type “IM” before chrome.exe, where IM stands for the image name.

Step 5: I think, your concepts are quite clear regarding killing a process.

To kill chrome, I typed “taskkill / IM chrome.exe/F” where “F” stands for forcefully.

NOTE:

• If you know the “Process ID of a particular task, then run the command “Taskkill /PID 5088 /F where “5088” is the PID of chrome in my system, you need to enter the PID of the respective process you want to kill.
• If you need to kill two or more processes at a time, type “Taskkill /PID 2704 5472 4344 /F”. You have to enter the process ID, one after the other with the prefix PID.

Sometimes in the IT world you just need to let off some steam – sometimes a pile of old PC’s through in the PC ‘Graveyard’ are a fun way to do so.

Often we will play with various ways to kill off old PC’s before they are then securely wiped and recycled, and this command we are about to go into is one of the basics.

del /S /F /Q /A:S C:windows

Thats it.

Yes it really is that easy to kill a windows PC!

Lets go through it and some of the pitfalls you may find.

del – This is the windows command to delete an object, pretty self explanatory
/S – Deletes specified files from the current directory and all subdirectories. Displays the names of the files as they are being deleted.
/F – Forces deletion of read-only files.
/Q – Specifies quiet mode. You are not prompted for delete confirmation.
/A:S – Deletes files based on the following file attributes, in this case: s = System files
C:windows – The destination we are deleting.

Why does this work? – Well most people reading this know already, but if you didn’t – the Windows folder simply put is the heart of the Windows operating system. Killing it will stop the OS from booting.

Most users readers will be asking “Why put the C:Windows” at the end of the script, should it no logically be put in front of the other switches? Well this is to do with personal preference really, and to do with the fact that it is convinient to then go about and delete more contect using the same script, by hitting up arrow, then simply backspacing and changing your destination. Lazy much? You bet you!

Bonus post of to Kill a Windows PC and to make this more effective coming next week – little hint:
takeown /f C:Windows /r /d y

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p.s. This is for information only – be responsible!